Rick Deutsch has a five-minute video with Doug McConnell of Bay Area Backroads fame.

It’s all familiar ground to many of us in the Global Hiker Elite (particularly those who’ve had the good fortune to drive 60 miles to a trail head with Rick, as I did — the most fun is his tale of how almost nobody within the borders of Yosemite is interested in selling a book about how to safely hike its most famous feature) but it’s worth a look for anybody who’s never done the Dome.

In the interest of linking to the books of all the unemployed hikers I know, here’s your chance to buy Rick’s at Books Inc. (which bills itself as the West’s oldest independent bookseller).